On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:51:48 +0200 Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > But none of this explains a 20-minute hang, unless a *lot* of fsyncs are > > being performed, perhaps. > > Another thing that is rather unpleasant (haven't yet tried fiddling with > the dirty limits) is UDF to DVD-RAM - try rsyncing /home to a DVD-RAM, > that's going to leave you with tons of dirty buffers that clear slowly > -- "watch -n 1 grep -i dirty /proc/meminfo" is boring, but elucidating... > yes, a few people are attacking that from various angles at present. It's tricky - writeback has to juggle a lot of balls. We'll get there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
